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Oh the hippie, dippy, trippy, late sixties gave way to the love, peace, flower child which traveled through the remainder of America’s struggling civil rights adolescence.  While America had passed a civil rights bill, their first Catholic President was assassinated.  While desegregation moved forward more violence against African Americans continued in the social holdouts of racism.  When some college students followed the Hippie life and dropped out, they became icons of a social war as the younger generation told the older generation, stop sending us to die in your wars.  Young men burned draft cards and ran to Canada to avoid the death machine that was Vietnam.  A later President would soon be exposed to be criminally implicated in campaign tampering and would resign in disgrace.  No one over 30 would ever be trusted again.

It is in this backdrop that the Teen Titans are created.

While Robin, Speedy, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, and Aqualad had existed for a while now, they had rarely teamed up.  In fact, Wonder Girl’s admission is an editorial flub as when she first appeared she was a younger version of Wonder Woman, not a separate character.  Eventually, to make the two characters completely distinguishable, Wonder Girl a.k.a. Donna More >